Author: Pilar Bañados
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789066057203
Category : Ribes
Languages : en
Pages : 544

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Author: Julie Graham
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319990314
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 169

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Raspberry is a globally-significant soft fruit crop, with increasing interest to consumers due to its versatility and health-related constituents. In this background context, it is therefore timely to consider the present and future status of the raspberry crop, particularly with the advances in the use of molecular tools and plant phenotyping to improve our understanding of improving crop quality and fruit yields. Since the 1980s a wealth of fundamental genomics and metabolomics resources have been developed for soft fruits including linkage maps, physical maps, QTLs and expression tools. However, a number of serious and emerging challenges exist for the raspberry industry, including the plants’ ability to resist major pest and disease burdens and the impact of climate change on crop production, specifically water use and water availability for soft fruit crops. This book aims to address some of these challenges by updating the information known about this important crop, its health value, the major pest and diseases which affect raspberry and approaches for their control, and the speed and precision offered by selective breeding programs by the deployment of molecular tools and linkage maps for germplasm assessment. Understanding the genetic control of commercially and nutritionally important traits and the linkage of these characteristics to molecular markers on chromosomes is the future basis of plant breeding. We will also introduce the opportunity to fast track breeding by improving the speed of phenotypic selection by utilizing imaging sensor technologies, thereby reducing the cost of years of field assessment through developing this knowledge into markers linked to key fruit traits. The chapters of this book will span the knowledge gained from the collaborations between growers, plant breeders, plant physiologists, soil scientists, geneticists, agronomists and physicists which is essential to achieve progress in improving productivity and a sustainable industry.

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Berries
Languages : en
Pages : 444

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Author: Bernadine Cornelia Strik
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789066057418
Category : Blueberries
Languages : en
Pages : 438

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Author: Parvaiz Ahmad
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1119501822
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 444

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A guide to environmental fluctuations that examines photosynthesis under both controlled and stressed conditions Photosynthesis, Productivity and Environmental Stress is a much-needed guide that explores the topics related to photosynthesis (both terrestrial and aquatic) and puts the focus on the basic effect of environmental fluctuations. The authors—noted experts on the topic—discuss photosynthesis under both controlled and stressed conditions and review new techniques for mitigating stressors including methods such as transgeneics, proteomics, genomics, ionomics, metabolomics, micromics, and more. In order to feed our burgeoning world population, it is vital that we must increase food production. Photosynthesis is directly related to plant growth and crop production and any fluctuation in the photosynthetic activity imposes great threat to crop productivity. Due to the environmental fluctuations plants are often exposed to the different environmental stresses that cause decreased photosynthetic rate and problems in the plant growth and development. This important book addresses this topic and: Covers topics related to terrestrial and aquatic photosynthesis Highlights the basic effect of environmental fluctuations Explores common stressors such as drought, salinity, alkalinity, temperature, UV-radiations, oxygen deficiency, and more Contains methods and techniques for improving photosynthetic efficiency for greater crop yield Written for biologists and environmentalists, Photosynthesis, Productivity and Environmental Stress offers an overview of the stressors affecting photosynthesis and includes possible solutions for improved crop production.

Author: Michael F. Clark
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789066058248
Category : Berries
Languages : en
Pages : 128

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Author: B. Williamson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Berries
Languages : en
Pages : 270

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Author: G. R. McGregor
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Blackberries
Languages : en
Pages : 436

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Author: Jack Rodney Harlan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521764599
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 639

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Brings together research from a range of fields to address key questions relating to agriculture: its origins and long-term sustainability.

Author: B. Williamson
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Berries
Languages : en
Pages : 432

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Contains 2 volumes (696 p.) of symposium papers previously published in book form.